[The World]
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- Created Date
- 1511
- Description
Ptolemaic world map.
Relief shown pictorially.
Engraved on wood with place names in moveable type.
Shows named national or geographical regions, rivers, mountains, deserts, seas.
In margin: climactic notes and zodiacal signs.
Appears in the author's Geographia, edited by Bernard Sylvanus. Venetiis : Per Iacobum Pentium de Leucho, anno Domini 1511.
Text in Latin.
Cataloging, conservation, and digitization made possible in part by The National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.
Atlas scanned by Internet Archive http://archive.org/details/claudiiptholemae00ptol
- Creator
Ptolemy, 2nd cent
- Partner
- Digital Commonwealth
- Contributing Institution
- Boston Public Library
- Publisher
- J. Pentius de Leucho
- Subjects
- World maps--Early works to 1800
- Location
- World
- Type
- image
- Format
- Maps
- Language
- Latin
- Rights
- No known restrictions on use.
No known copyright restrictions.
- Chicago citation style
- Ptolemy, 2nd cent. [The World]. 1511. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/st74cx52z. (Accessed April 19, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Ptolemy, 2nd cent, (1511) [The World]. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/st74cx52z
- MLA citation style
- Ptolemy, 2nd cent. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/st74cx52z>.